Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment when the U.S. had no other choice but to hold to its position. Harry Truman was quoted by Labor Leader David Dubinsky as promising, "We will not go out of Berlin." That was about all most U.S. citizens knew about their nation's developing diplomacy. But they were willing to applaud when Arthur Vandenberg warned the world not to misinterpret political differences in the U.S. After a conference with Governor Dewey, Vandenberg declared: "We are serving notice on the world that America is united to protect American rights everywhere...
That was the way the people's leaders felt this day, too. They had few original phrases to add to what had been said often before. But the words had a new and bolder meaning, and the people cheered. Said Ernst Reuter simply: "He who surrenders Berlin surrenders a world, surrenders himself." Gustav Pietch, railroad labor leader, bellowed hoarsely: "The blockade has failed, and now the Communists can only wait for the help of General Hunger and Generalissimo-" (here he paused long enough for the crowd to expect to hear "Stalin") "-Winter." Pietch concluded: "Again they will fail...
...climax came when Social Democratic Leader Franz Neumann asked the crowd's approval to carry a memorandum to the Western powers documenting the tyranny and police methods of the Soviet. The hundreds of thousands of arms went up in approval as they cried "Freiheit!" in a mighty roar. Neumann rode on the crowd's shoulders as he tightly clasped the typewritten sheets of his memorandum in one arm and a bouquet of red roses in the other. Slowly the crowd began to melt back into the ruins from which it had come. Loudspeakers blared Wagner's Overture...
Suddenly knees, feet and elbows came through the door, scattering glass before them. The invaders slowly climbed, one by one, through the empty frames in the door. I watched their leader-a blond youth of 20-walk quickly up to a grey-haired clerk leaning innocently against a desk, spin him around, swing a haymaker at the man's temple and send him sprawling across the marble floor against the wall. The man got up holding his aching head, shaking it slowly as if in disbelief. Fighting and fear spread swiftly...
...arrested, escaped, arrested again. Premier George Tatarescu brought her to trial; Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...